it also found that most of the public does not believe that the obama ministration intentionally tried to mislead america. >> kron4 once to know what you think. did susan rice handle the situation appropriately? log on to our facebook fan page and i will read the results live tonight. >> president and obama and republicans are each setting up their approach to avoid the fiscal cliff. events this week were aimed at selling his remedy including allowing higher taxes on the wealthy. republicans are claiming that he should instead be sitting down to talk more with them. >> it seems like our president is having some sort of difficulty turning off the campaign. we need to sit down and work this matter out. >> there is little progress with the republicans which is disappointing to me. i they talked some happy talk about revenues but we only have a few weeks to get something done. >> of republicans have had their own meetings. the fiscal cliff is a series of tax increases and spending cuts that economists predict could send the u.s. into a recession. former senator bob dole of kansas has been